My husband, Steve Medwell, and I were recently asked to officiate at the wedding of a family member. We are a notoriously happy, fun-loving and rowdy couple so they thought perhaps our thoughts could inspire the beginning of a life together. Here’s what we decided to say: “Well, there is good news and bad news […]
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I write this as I depart Sharjah Emirate and Amman, Jordan. I had an opportunity through being a member of the Harvard Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board to participate in the Arab Women’s International Forum meeting in Sharjah and then travel on with WLB members for study and travel in Jordan. This opportunity came at […]
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After reading all of my prior blogs if you still think divorce is going to be a solution to your unhappiness, there is a way to go about it that improves your chances of a better reality. If you have children, what you’ve got to factor in to every decision is that you are inextricably […]
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There is a crazy sort of paradox about happiness: part of it is about strengthening your sense of self and part of it is about getting over your self absorption, I mean our self absorption. We all have doubts about ourselves, problems with our sense of self, or at a minimum, limiting thoughts about our […]
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